Eric Dane / Rebecca Gayheart Sextape Link Removed From Gawker

by Amy Judd | July 30, 2010 at 11:50 am

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Eric Dane, Rebecca Gayheart and Kari Ann Peniche Threesome Sextape Link Removed From Gawker After Settlement Reached

The full details of the settlement are not known, but the link to view the threesome sextape no longer exists after Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart filed a lawsuit back in September 2009. They were suing for more than $1 million in damages and asked to have the video removed from the site.

Gawker had posted edited versions of the tape on their website.

Gawker posted around four minutes of the video on the Defamer blog on Aug. 17 with the headline "Dane's Anatomy: McSteamy, His Wife and a Fallen Beauty Queen's Naked Threesome." Gawker also posted an "uncensored" version on Fleshbot the following day.

Last year Judge George Wu of the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles ruled that Dane and Gayheart could not receive statutory damages because they had not registered their sextape with the U.S. Copyright Office before it appeared online.

After the Eric Dane sextape appeared on Gawker and charges were filed, Gawker founder Nick Denton tweeted: